SS Quah's Anything Goes

It starts off very innocently enough. You log into your facebook account and find that facebook has made some suggestions for you to befrie...

I meant to write this story about two weeks ago but had to put it off for a while. It will not do anyone justice if I were to delay the...

We cooked a version of fish pie as a treat for our daughter today and I dare say that it was as good as any that Jamie Oliver may have ba...

As a schoolboy in the late 1960s - possibly from the end of 1968 onwards - I was enjoying many of my Saturday nights listening to the syn...

I had problems with my File Explorer application on my desktop yesterday. For no known reason, that is, no reason known to me, every time...

The Tacoma tree outside my house is flowering again. Pink tacoma flowers. I can expect the next week to be very busy indeed. Very busy, tha...

Far too often, I hear some of my fellow Old Frees pouting statements like "why should I help the Free School when the school is no lon...

An historic journey into uncharted waters. Two scenes from a packed House of Commons as British prime minister Theresa May invoked Article ...

I had a shock when I went to the Siamese cemetery at the Wat Pinbang Onn temple in Green Lane, Penang, this morning to find someone who...

Over the past one week, I've been receiving messages from friends asking me about the date of this year's Cheng Beng (清明) festiv...

An Appeal to Old Frees for Funding For the Staging of SWORDFISH + CONCUBINE (a play written by Kee Thuan Chye, an Old Free) To Rais...

I discovered this 45rpm record among my collection four nights ago. This record, together with many others, had been given to me by the w...

I must admit that my heart did skip a beat when I first saw this picture which someone had posted in the Penang Heritage Trust (PJT) Discu...

We went up Penang Hill last Sunday. No, we did not take the funicular train to the top. Rather, we walked from the Botanical Gardens. Along...

It's been a long time since I was able to uncover any new information on the origins of the Quah (Kē, 柯) surname but today, I came acr...

As a follow-up to my story on Penang's oldest schools, here is my non-exhaustive list of some of the oldest secondary schools in the c...

Earlier this month during the Chap Goh Meh morning, my wife made the rare decision to follow me to the Quah Kongsi where we were having our...

I woke up at about six thirty this morning and then decided to go outside the house. Unlike yesterday, the sky was clear and there it was, ...

This is a wonderful album which I never fail to take out from my collection to give it an occasional spin on the turntable. Year of the Cat...

When it came to retiring from my job at JobStreet.com in December 2009, my office mates had thrown me a farewell party on the final day ...